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NBA trade causes Spoonful panic - landry for gordon

In moves involving three of the handsomest men in the NBA (see above), the Spoonful, reading about the exciting NBA trades between the Knicks, Clippers, and Warriors (more to come), flew, ill-considered, into action, dropping (for the 2nd time) semi-promising, gap-toothed HOU forward Carl Landry, profiled here, for Ricky Buckets, discussed previously, who may garner more minutes in LAC with Mobley gone. Then, realizing that Ricky Davis isn't good, dropped Davis for the higher upside of rookie Eric Gordon, dropped a while back by thenopp, as detailed here. The Spoonful are hoping that reuniting the brothers Gordon will help young Eric take advantage of the opportunity that may be coming his way.

Judgment: As was the case last time, Landry, upon being dropped, had a terrific game tonight - his first in weeks. We're entitling this widespread phenomenon 'the Brooks/Landry effect' in honor of Houston's two 7th men who have been prone to blowing up after being dropped. Gordon may prove useless, but one has to try to capitalize on NBA upheaval. Still, given the Spoonful's need for rebounds, patience with Landry might have been more prudent.

Ricky No Buckets No More

Ricky's 1 ast, 1 pf performance against the Divine Nugs last night was enough for the Digits. If Ricky can't get it going in 15 minutes on a pretty crappy team, he's not really worth the roster spot. Meanwhile, teammate Tim "Don't Call Me" Thomas is picking up the stats one might have expected to accrue to Mr. Davis: 20 and 7 in 40 minutes last night.

Analysis: Thomas' stay on the notoriously unsteady Digits lineup might turn out to be a short one, as T-Thom has not made reliability the hallmark of his career. Nonetheless, after a slow start the Digits has left his first mark on the Moves leaderboard, the one category in which he traditionally dominates.